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Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation

Interleukin-1 mediates endothelin-1-induced fever and prostaglandin production in the preoptic area of rats

¹Institute of Pharmacology, Catholic University Medical School, Rome, Italy; and ²Laboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Submitted 22 August 2005 ; accepted in final form 25 January 2006

The intracerebroventricular injection of endothelin-1 (ET-1) induces fever and increases PG levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of rats. Likewise, the injection of IL-1 into the preoptic area (POA) of the rat hypothalamus causes both fever and increased PG production. In this study, we conducted in vivo and in vitro experiments in the rat to investigate 1) the hypothalamic region involved in ET-1-induced fever and PG biosynthesis and 2) whether hypothalamic IL-1 plays a role as a mediator of the above ET-1 activities. One hundred femtomoles of ET-1 increased body temperature when injected in the POA of conscious Wistar rats; this effect was significantly counteracted by the coinjection of 600 pmol IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra). In experiments on rat hypothalamic explants, 100 nM ET-1 caused a significant increase in PGE₂ production and release from the whole hypothalamus and from the isolated POA, but not from the retrochiasmatic region, in 1-h incubations. Six nanomoles of IL-1ra or 10 nM of a cell-permeable interleukin-1 converting enzyme inhibitor completely counteracted the effect of ET-1 on PGE₂ release from the POA. One hundred nanomoles ET-1 also caused a significant increase in IL-1 immunoreactivity released into the bath solution of hypothalamic explants after 1 h of incubation, although during such time ET-1 failed to modify the gene expression of IL-1 and other pyrogenic cytokines within the hypothalamus. In conclusion, our results show that ET-1 increases IL-1 production in the POA, and this effect appears to be correlated to ET-1-induced fever in vivo, as well as to PG production in vitro.

prostaglandin E₂; interleukin-1 receptor antagonist; interleukin-1-converting enzyme inhibitor; posterior hypothalamus; hypothalamic explants

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